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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-03
@ WHEN TO WATER HORSES

If the owners of horses would bear in
mind the fact that the stomach OF a horse
will contain only from twelve to sixteen
quarts, and that, therefore. a pailful of
water will fill the stomach of an ordinary
animal, much collie and indigestion would
be avoided.
The giving Of water is not less import
ant than feeding. During a journey, and
especially in hot weather, the team should
be allowed to drink at every opportunity
if they will. But at no time should they
be allowed to fill themselves with water.
Four quarts is enough at any time, unless
a long distance has been driven. Then
four quarts is enough for the first draft.
At the end Of twenty minutes each horse
should be allowed a pailful if he will
drink it. Generally he will not do so, but
if allowed he may take two or three pail
fuls at the FIRST draft, and always to his
damage. The water drank does not re-
main in the stomach. 1t passes into the
large intestine and thence to the bowels,
being taken up along the passage by the
a~bsorbents. If large quantities of water
are given, the horse sweats or stales pro
fusely, and tie system is depleted. Collie,
indigestion and other complications aris-
ing from improper watering and feeding
kill more horses than all other causes
combined.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-03
n Is NOT DEAD.

1t is fashionable nowadays Gas it has
been always to complain that all our
great writer's and thinkers are dead or dy-
ing, and who is there left to replace them?
Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Troll
lope and Reade are gone. Carlyle has
ceased from his lifelong wall; Darwin has
left the less fit to survive; Mill has joined
the voteless majority. Macauley, Lytton
and Disraeli ave gone. Across the At
lantic, Emerson, Longfellow, Hawthorne
sleep in Sleepy Hollow; Lowell, Holmes
and Whittier belong to the elder and pass
ing generation. Where are the juniors
who ought to be taking their vacant
places.
If one ventures to suggest y rising name
or two in reply, the objector has always an
easy answer. young So and SO? All,
he writes poems, does he? No, no; I never
heard of him." Or else, in a more dog
matically negative form, You don't mean
to say you think that fellow amounts to
anything"
The fact is, the men still labor, like Pitt,
under the fatal defect of being young; as
young as Tennyson and Thackeray and
Herbert Spencer were, at their age, no
younger.
Look at the critical journals of thirty or
forty years back, and you will find exactly
the same complaint made, and with exact
ly the same measure of reason. 1t was
then said: 'All the grand old men of the
grand old days are dead or dying, and who
is there left to replace them?" Why.
young Mr.. Tennyson, who wrote those
silly sing song verses of "Oriana;'' young
Mr.. Dickens, the author of those vulgar
%catchpenny "Piekwick Papers, young
Mr.. Thackeray, who hangs about the
clubs and failed with the "Luck of Barry
Lyndon
All the available protoplasm in the coun-
try was not used up in the production OF
Tennyson and Arnold and Browning. The
reason why no two or three names emerge
conspieuously as yet among the younger
men is not because there are none to
emerge, but because, on the other hand,
there are far too many. We live in an age
when high genius is a drug in the market:
the supply of originality, of brilliancy, oil
first rate workmanship far exceeds the eff
fective misunderstanding.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-03
THE oLD.FAsHIoNED TEACHER.

Hon. A. d. Harlan, in his speech in the
Pennsylvania Senate, made a telling an
swer to the objection that women are unfit
to take part in government:
"The time was, and not long since. that
it was thought it would never do to give a
winter school in the rural districts to a
lady, because she would never be able to
govern the big boys. She might teach a
small school during the summer months,
because it would be composed of little chill
dren, but a good, big, strong man would
have to be employed for the winter months.
And some of us here, vino are quite young,
can we'll remember this ideal male teacher,
as he entered the school room the first
morning of the term with His bundle Of
rods, which he put up over his desk as a
terror to all the pupils; and how, as a rule,
he would try to find some fault with the
boy who had been the ringleader in mis-
chief the last session, SO that he, the teach
err, might give him a thrashing the first
day, and thus secure the government of
the school for the term. But that kind of
government has disappeared, and in its
place there rules, instead, a gentle maiden
and her rule is perfect, for it is the rule of
love.
To-day this Commonwealth has more
than fifteen thousands such women, who
are governing q million Of our boys and
girls, and training them for usefulness in
life.
"We admit their superiority in this work,
and yet we discriminate against them by
paying them at least thirty per cent. less
than we do male teachers, when they do
the same work, and do it better.
"Should we thus discriminate against
woman if she had Il vote? No. not for Il
day. We should not dare to do it.
elias this change in our public schools
degraded these fifteen thousand women ?
No. it has made them respected and hon
ored everywhere.
"Woman entered the telegraph Office,
and the vile language eften INDUCED in by
men disappeared.
"Women are to-day sought for in the
office, in the store, and all the departments
of business where brains, virtue, and hon
csty are wanted.
ut is to-day everywhere admitted that
where the unjust discrimination ofman has
yielded to the growing civilization of the
age, and allowed woman an equal race in
any of the professions, she has proven her
self worthy of the place.
II have no fear that if We give woman
liberty, she will be less feminine, fer oma
can never be unwomanly. She, like man,
acquires character and sclf-control in pro-
portion as her sphere e~nlarges."
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-03
Written Tor the MONITOR.
A CALENDAR OF THOUGHTS.
by tile Week.

SuNDAY.-The thorn bush has a beauti-
full blossom, but il fades, leaving only the
thorn. Sin has many delighting fragrant
pleasures, but they too fade, leaving only
the sting.
MoNDAY.-Faith is the root of faithful
ness. The man who believes in God and
good and the unseen world of rewards and
punishments, is the man who works faith
full in the ways of lifc's duties.
Observation-Disclosures and fire make iron
serviceable. Adversely makes friendship
full of wear.
WEDNEsDAY.-When the heart is chaos,
seething with wicked thoughts and rebel
ious feelings, great and pure thoughts and
purposes struggling for the mastery, hold
the doors of speech and doing bolted fast,
letting nothing within escape until it has
taken form in a cosmos in which good and
truth is the law by which it curves to its
course sending forth its haryests of bless
ing.
THuRsDAY.-It is the little we see. The
great our eyes arc too dull for. And We
| stumble when we call our little the great,
making the bit Of stain seem like the whole
creation of beauty. IL we could see Gods
thought in it's entirety we would stumble
no more at so much that seems to contra
dict his Fatherhood, but fall down and
worship at the feet of eternal Love!
FRIDAY.-Baskets can not hold the barn.
fulls. Man has a great God, but can only
get from that greatness what his basket OF
faith can holi. Big baskets can always
carry away big blessings.
SATuRDAY.-Think right and be right
often face the point of the compass with
their backs to each other. 1t only men
were the blossoms of their best thoughts,
what a beautiful manhood wonld glorify
J the world!
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-03
THE FAMILY oCroR

Try clam broth for a weak stomach.
Try cranberry poultice for erysipelas.
Try swallowing saliva when troubled
with sour stomach.
Try eating fresh radishes and yellow tur-
nips for gravel.
Try eating onions and horseradish to re-
lieye dropsical swellings.
Try the crcup-tippet when child is like-
~ to be troubled in that way.
Try hot flannel over the seat of neural
gie pain and renew frequently.
Try buttermilk for the removal of tan.
and walnut stains, and freckles.
Try a cloth wrung from cold water put
about the neck for sore throat.
Try taking cod liver oil in tomato eat
sup if you want to make it palatable,
Try walking with your hands behind yoy
ifyou are becoming bent forward.
Try snufing powdered borax up the nos.
trils for catarrhal cold in the head.
Try breathing fumes of turpentine o
carbolic acid to relieve whopping cough
NeC York Nal.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-03
ADVICE TO PASSENGERS.

Never run after a train that has got out
of sight. The train won't mind your being
left. Out of sight, out OF mind. Don't
decry sectional feeling on the railroad.
It's part of the system. Swear off on day
pc, deepo, deppo, dippo and depot, and
learn to say station. 1t is not only English,
it is something rarer than that-it is cor
rect. If the car is too warm don't open
the window ou your suffering and SILVER
ing neighbor. Take off your muller, fur
gloves and buffalo overcoat; it will be per-
fectly proper, even though there are ladies
in the car. Give up your pass and pay
your fare like a man. Every time you
travel on u pass some good man (accent
heavy on the "good") has to pay extra.
p. S.-If you decide to do this, don't waste
| your pass; send it to me. Don't lie about
| your 14-year-old boy any more. Behonest;
| own up that he is nine years old II pay
| half fare for him. Never ask any ques-
tions of the station agent or train men be-
fore getting aboard. Act like an old trav-
| eler who knows it all. BY this means you
will often succeed in getting on the wrong
| train, while the timid, green, inquisitive
and inexperienced go joyously on theil
way. If you are the fool you look to be,
write your name and address on the frosty
window pane; write it large and plain. II
YOU are the fool all the rest of the passen-
gers take you TO be, whistle some tune thai
YOU don't know-whistle lou and shrilli
and accompany yourself by drumming on
the window with your fingers.-R. j. BAR
: deIIe
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-03
FEW IFS.

If you hear an evil tale about a young
man or woman of your acquaintance, dom
help to circulate it. The chances are that
it is false and would do infinite harm t.
the innocent. Besides, it is the poorest
sort of business to take up a reproact
against ones ~Deighbor.
If you don't like the style of the preach
er whose church You attend, be careful in
whose company and under what circum-
stances you c~riticise his sermons and his
manner of life. Criticism may be just and
right, but there are times when it is not ex-
pedient. Besides, when one examines into
the condition of his own mental and moral
machinery, he's apt to develop a broader
charity towards his brethren.
If you have a situation which pays you
fairly well, enough to maintain your fam
lily in comfort, be thankful, and don't
make a fool of yourself by throwing away
a sure thing for an uncertainty. The men
who made the familiar sayings, "a bird in
the hand is worth two in the bush,' and
"a rolling stone gathers no moss" evil
IDENTIFY had gone through life with their
eyes open.
If you are in the habit Of ooking forthe
faults Of other people stop awhile and look
at yourself, maybe you will find that the
beam in your eye led you to imagine you
saw a mote in your neighbours eye which
wasn't there.
If you are a patron Of the bar room and
believe you have a sovereign right to
drink, at least don't do anything to lead
other people to do so dangerous a habit.
Don't treat any, especially a young man.
If such become drunkards, let you con-
science be able to assure you truthfully
that you have never contributed to their
ruin. Give the absurd treating habit the
cold shoulder.
IF You have formed a habit of taking
patent medicines in the vain hope of win
ming back health, throw them cut of The
window and go to the mountains or the
sea shore or the cool forests and seek treat
ment of Dir. Nature. Patent medicines
every year Stay more mortals than fall in
battle or die by accident.
If you have a damp cellar, defective
plumbing, an unclean and loud-smelling
back yard; if anywhere about your prem
ises there is material upon which disease
and death may feed, abatc the nuisance at
once.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-03
MISS pARLoA,s ICE CREAM CAKE.

Ice cream cake, named from its delicacy,
requires, according to Miss Parloa's recipe,
one cup of butter, one and half of sugar,
two flour, half a cup of milk, whites oil
five eggs, two level teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, half a t%easpoonful Of vanilla ex-
tract. Baked twenty-five minutes in a
moderate oven, which gives q tender, fine
grained cake, while q hot one makes cake
coarse and tough. Sprinkle sugar over
cake that is not to be frosted, going into
the oven, to make 4 rich, nice crust. Beat
very little after the flour IS worked in,
only three or four strokes, as beating
makes cake finer but tougher and dryer
Mind this with sponge cake. A lttlt
water set in the oven gives moister cake
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-03
PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.
Mysterious AiIMents-ErighG's Disease.
A Foreign Invention.


"a mysterious dispensation of Plovi-
dence, truly" remarked a lady, returning
| from the funeral of a third victim to dipll-
liberia. in one and the same house.
sIIumph," replied her companion, "Provi-
| dence indeed! Mr.. Blanks cellar is full OF
rotting potatoes
When epidcmicF of diphtheria and the
like break out in cities, they are usually
attributed to faulty sewerage, bad condi-
lions of tenements, etc. When occurring
in the Countrywide supposed abode Of pure
air and pure water-tleir origin is to a
great many minds mysterious" "Mr.
Blanks potatoes" however, would ac-
count for a good many cases. In addition
to this cause might be mentioned the con-
tamination of the water supply by a bad
relation of the we'll to the cess pool and
other excavations; or even its contamina-
ton from surface drainage. Toward the
end of the winter we are accustomed to
hear of the ravages of diphtheria in isolated
households, in country neighborhoods and
in villages. 1t is then that the filth that
has been frozen up all winter is put into
solution and carried by heavy rains into
the well or the n~eighboring stream from
which water for household use is drawn
the pure, limpid brook OF the poets. From
such a well or brook people fill their sys-
tens with the germs of disease. Ignorance
or disregard of sanitary precautions is too
often the mysterious something" that
brings sudden sickness and death to house
holds with the coming OF spring, gentle
spripu
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-03
WHOSE?

When the drunkards who reel in our streets
to-day
Shall lie down in their last long sleep,
And be borne from the cutters and laid away
Till their harvest of sin they reap,
ThereIl be others to fill up the broken ranks,
And talk OF their 'sfreedom' and "rights,"
And be wrecked on the only dangerous "bar''
Where We put up no signal light.
Therc1l be other sad homes, where the moth
er-heart
Is endowed with a bitter shame,
And the father will long from his life to part
To escape from a furnished name.
Therelf be homes where the toii-worn but
faithful wife
Shall watch through the wearisome night,
And where children list for their fathers step
But to fee from his step in fright.
Thcre'Ii be places, too, where the demons
wiIes
VIII cntangle the heirs young feet;
And the lady of fashion shall hide with smiles
Her crashed heart in its winding sheet;
oh! how can we but turn to the nearer thought
Mid home-walls now ringing with gIee,
Who shall give this Moloch his victim. Whose
Shall these blights of the future be?
Lift your wee baby boy, with his curly head,
And look down in his eyes and think:
Shall he ever f'be hung by the neck till dead"
For n murder inspired by drink?
Ills Il horrible question, yet better far
10 ask you now, ere too late;
For each drunkard's childhood was pure aud
sweet
Ere the tempter had set his bait.
If by precept, example, or vote we shall fail
To combat with the evil now,
What in years of our anguish can then avail
When our loved ones have sunk in the slough?
Oh! ye fathers and mothers of little ones,
Awake! for the foe is at hand
You in saving others may save your own
From the curse of our stricken land.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-03

Pouring hot soapsuds around the roots
of peach trees viii destroy the insidious
little fungus which produces the yellows
and other diseases, and finish the Larvae Of
insects which are very injurious to the
trees. Soapsuds make an excellent man
ure for the grapeyincs and indeed for
almost every tree or shrub.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-03
VOL. ".
BEAUTIFUL THREADS OF GOLD.

Weaving them into a work-a-day life,
Beautiful threads of gold.
A thread of joy with a strand Of strife,
And yet the hands that hold
May fashion them out into patterns rare,
Designs of beauty, new and fair,
It'll the Master Weaver finds them there,
Beautiful threads of gold.
Weaving them in with a patient hand,
Beautiful threads of gold;
Filling them in MS the Artist planned
When he laid life's sombre fold,
Weaving them in with the homeliest cares
over some burden another bears,
Glad that the Master Weaver spares
Some beautiful threads of gold.
Weave them i'll with the hopes and fears,
Beautiful threads of gold!
Brighter the gold of the thread appears
As the web of life grows old.
Weaving them in with a smile and a song:
Wonderful threads so fine and strong;
Under the good and over the strong,
Weave beautiful threads of gold.
Weaving them in with a watchful eye,
Beautiful threads of gold
To shine across where the shadows lie,
When the web is all unrolled.
Weaving them in, when the Masters call
Lets the bright thread break, and the shuttl
fall,
And Angels come down to gather them all.
Lifc's broken threads of gold.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-03

your doctor 5 prescriptions. Send three 2
cent stamps to pay postage, and receive
DR.. Kanfmann's great treatise ON Diseases;
illustrated in colors, it gives their signs
and authorizations. Address A. T. 0riway
K Co. Boston. Mass.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-03

Take a new flower pot, wash it clean,
wrap in a wet cloth and set over butter, il
will keep it as hard as il on ice. Milk, il
nut into an earthen can or even a tin one,
will keep sweet a long time, if we'll wrap
ped in q wet cloth.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-03

All kinds of crockery and Queensware.
We are selling lots of goods of this kind
now that we've room to show them at our
old stand at the corner.-E. h. Hum
dlreys & Co.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-27


He Asks the President to Recognize the He
brews for Peculiar Reasons.
New York Special.
When Oscar s. Straus, now minister to Tur-
key. was being urged for that office by his
friends, Henry Ward Beecher, a warm friend Of
Mr.. Straus, wrote the following letter. 1t is
peculiar letter. 1t tells definitely than anv
words than its own can describe the broad states.
manship and advanced position of Brooklyn's Ia
nous pastor
BROOKLYN. N. Y, Feb. IL, 1887.
Grover Cleveland
Dear Mr.. President-Some of our best citizens are
minister to Turkey. Of his fitness there is general
consenI mat he is personally and in attainn.ents,
emlnentiy exec lent But am interested in another
quahty-the fact that he is a Hebrew. The bitter
prejudice against Jews which obtains in many
parts OF Europe, ought not to receive any coun.
tenance in America. 1t Is because he is q
Jew that l would urge his appointment as a
fit recognition of this remarkable people, who are be-.
coming large contributors to American prosperity
and whose intelligence morality and large liberality
in all public measures for the welfare of society de.
and should receive from the hands of our gov.
eminent some such recognition Is it not also duty
to set forth in this quiet but eectual method the
genius of American government. which has under its
fostering care people OF all civilized nations, and
which treats them, without regard to civil, relg.
ious peculiarities, citi.
We send Danes to Denmark, Germans
to Germany we reject no man because he is French
man; why should we not make browning testimony
to the genius of our people by sending Hebrew to
Turkey2 The ignorance and superstition of medieval
Europe may account for the prejudice of that dark
age. But how Christian in day turn from q
Jew cannot imagine Christianity itself sucked at
the bosom of Judaism; roots in the Old Testa
ment. We are Jews ourselves gone to blossom and
fruit. Christianity is Judaism in evolution. and it
would strange for the seed to turn against the
stock on which it was grown.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-27

Superstition About Disturbing the Dead In
terferes with the Mining Interests.
dAnca York

Superstition About Disturbing the Dead In
terferes with the Mining Interests.
Correspond ence New York Evening Post.
The female relatives do not accompany the
body to the grave, and the mourning is done at
the house and at the grave, if at all, by hired
professional mourners. If the dead man was
very poor he was carried to his grave on q bier
of the simplest construction, borne by two men.
The body is shielded from sight only by semi.
cylinder Of paper and it is placed in the grave
with no coffin to hinder contact with the earth.
The cost Of burial in such case Is only about
So. It is probably on account of the occupation
of the hills as burial grounds, and of the horror
felt at the thought of disturbing graves, that
the Koreans are averse to opening up the miner
al wealth lying in the mountains. AS worship
is paid the spirits of the dead at the graves,
disturbing the tomb is to them the equivalent
of sacrilege 1t is not unlikely, however, that
before long this feeling will give way to desire
to develop and get the benefit of the resources
Of the country. A good start is already made
in this direction. At the palace they are burn
ing coal mined at Korea-a good quality of rath-
| or soft anthracite. We are promised next year
all the Korean coal we can burn at not more than
anese bituminous coal. the prospect is cheerful
one for US. Without doubt. the government can
derive a large revenue from its coal-mines The
coal is at the surface, and many veins run into
the hills, thus doing away with airy necessity
tor pumping apparatus or costly shafting. The
government has prior claim on all hills where
precious metals or other wealth may be found
In consequence Of this, the opening of mines
of metal and coal will produce revenue for the
! government. and not merely bonanza for pr,
| vate individuals.